Alumni Event: Life After College with an English Degree – A Gustche Lecture with Patrick Briggs

Please join us

Join us in welcoming creative writing alumnus and tech CEO Patrick Briggs ’06, who will be giving a talk about how an English degree can bring career success!

The lecture will be held in Harris Hall (500 Harris Drive) on Thursday, October 24th at 4:30 PM in room 111A. A reception will follow. 

Patrick Briggs is the CEO of Semify, a white-label digital marketing service provider. Prior to joining Semify, Patrick was an entrepreneurial leader for startups and technology companies in Silicon Valley and New York City. Over the last fourteen years, Patrick has driven nine-figure revenue growth by leading marketing, sales, product positioning, cost optimizations, and strategic development in consumer-packaged goods businesses, customization and promotional printing businesses, business-to-business technology and software businesses, and business-to-business and business-to-consumer insurance products. Patrick holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a BA in English: Creative Writing with a minor in Anthropology from Miami University, and the Boy Scouts of America rank of Eagle Scout.

This event is sponsored in part by the Department of English, the Center for Career Services and Success, and the Marilyn Gustche Lectureship Fund. 

Miami University Press Poetry Reading by Distinguished Irish Poet & Editor Randolph Healy

When? Thursday, November 14, 2024

Register in advance for this Zoom meeting:
https://miamioh.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rd–vqjIoE9GJc9kEf_iowUJA5_04pSEQ

Miami University Press is proud to present a Zoom reading by the distinguished Irish poet and editor Randolph Healy, author of books including The Electron-Ghost Casino (Miami U Press, 2024) and Green 532: Selected Poems 1983-2000 (Salt, 2002). Healy will be introduced by the recent Miami University MFA graduate Sean Pierson, author of The Perfect Season (Wild Honey Press, 2024).

Comprising forty-nine units, with a bespoke porch and optional exit through a bestiary, Randolph Healy’s The Electron-Ghost Casino has a décor ranging from the cerebral (all percentiles included) to the earthy. Notes of horror, intimacy, fractured histories, and joy echo from its chambers. Healy is the author of Green 532: Selected Poems 1983-2000 (Salt 2002) and other books and chapbooks celebrated by readers throughout the Anglophone poetry world. This is his first American book publication. Are some of his tunes unfamiliar?  Don’t worry, or do. We may be out of time, but there’s still space. Dance.

Writers Harvest – Reading and Art Auction for Hunger Charity Event

Please join us for a good cause!

ALL proceeds go to our local food pantry, TOPSS. Hosted by Director of Creative Writing Brian Ascalon Roley and Western Center artist Billy Simms.
When: Nov 19, 2024 7 PM Eastern Time

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://miamioh.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvc-6vqjoiH9QNvM1EzRPMFnwNKn-FcZ5p

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

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Spring Street MFA Reading Series

Harris Hall, 150

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500 Harris Drive, Oxford OH 45056 #SpringStreet

The Spring Street Reading Series features graduate student writers from Miami University’s Creative Writing MFA program and is held monthly throughout the academic year. The following is the anticipated schedule and designated readers. 

Fall Semester: Harris Hall (Room 150) 

  • October SpringStreet Reading (Tuesday Oct. 15th @ 7:15 PM): Dominik Gebell, Maddie Portune, Tanushree Mukherjee, & Anna Richard 
  • WRITER’S HARVEST Annual Reading and Art Auction fundraising event for hunger (all proceeds go directly to our local food pantry TOPSS)  (on ZOOM: Tuesday Nov. 19th @ 7-8 PM): Kyle Williams, James Foss, Emma Rowan, & Kayla Belser. On ZOOM: https://miamioh.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvc-6vqjoiH9QNvM1EzRPMFnwNKn-FcZ5p 

Spring Semester: Harris Hall (Room 150) 

  • February Spring Street Reading (Tuesday Feb. 11th @ 7:15 PM): Hossein Sobhani, CC Webb, Samantha Stahlhut, &  Jordyn Damato 
  • March SpringStreet Reading (Tuesday Mar. 11th @ 7:15 PM): Cody Tieman, Candace Renicks, Mary Newton, & Chris Bowyer 
  • April Spring Street Reading (Tuesday Apr. 15th @ 7:15 PM): Ross Kohler, Ria Adams, Ana Eliza de Melo Garcia, & Joshua Konecke 

Rita Dove Alumni Event for National Poetry Month

Join us for a special event with Rita Dove, Miami University creative writing alumna, Pulitzer Prize winner and National Poet Laureate Emeritus

Alumna poet Rita Dove will join us virtually for a reading and conversation including creative writing poetry faculty in the Heritage Room, Shriver Center. You can check out a recent Paris Review Interview of the US Poet Laureate Emeritus and Pulitzer Prize winner in which she speaks about her time at Miami and its influence on her.

You can find our Alumni testimonials page here.

End of Year English Department Celebration

You’re invited! Please join us for the end of the school year this Wednesday, May 8 at 4PM in Armstrong (Fritz Pavilion C – 3rd floor)! 

We’ll celebrate the end of the year, bid farewell to seniors, and toast faculty and student achievements! Student orgs and pubs will be tabling and there will be yummy snacks!

OxMag Open Mic

Please join us next week for the first ever OxMag Open Mic! This event is a celebration of the release of our 52nd Issue and all of the wonderful writing being done at Miami. Come and enjoy some snacks, peruse the latest issue of OxMag, and listen to your fellow Miami writers. All are welcome— please share this invitation!

Tuesday, May 7

7:15-8:15 pm 

Bachelor Reading Room (BAC 337) or register to attend virtually on Zoom

Featuring… You!!

Readers will be given 3-4 minutes time slots. What should you read? We’re not picky! Bring a poem, a piece of flash prose, a couple of jokes you’ve been working on, a song you’ve written, or whatever else you’d like to share with your fellow writers. 

To keep things organized, please sign up to read using this link or scan the QR code below. If you’re not sure whether or not you’d like to read, no worries. Sign-ups will be available the day of the event until we run out of slots. 

Hope to see you there! Have a great day. 

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